DiS football announcement #2 for this week: we will be playing the God Squad again. Last year's match ended in a 3 - 1 victory for the unholy DiS squad, but as we all know, the spiritual one moves in mysterious ways, so a repeat of that divine victory is by no means guaranteed. The God Squad are wearing orange, after all.

Note that this game is on a SATURDAY, and kick-of is at 2 PM !!! All very different from what you are used to, so try not be that guy (again).

As always with international friendlies, we'll have a proper FA referee, so bring your shinpads and practice those throw-ins.

The usual blurb:
- we play on a full-sized astro-turf pitch
- there are spanking new, comfy changing and toilet facilities
- 5 min walk from Archway tube station (Northern line)
- 1 min walk from Upper Holloway train station (Barking - Gospel Oak line)
- Buses 17, 43 and 271 all stop at Upper Holloway train station
- arrive at 1:30 PM for warm-up, tactics discussion, pre-match fags, team pictures, etc.
- kick-off at 2 PM sharp
- full 2 x 45 minutes and injury time + 15 min break
- normal FA rules, but with rolling subs
- shirt colour to be confirmed (but most likely blue)
- final team will be announced on the Thursday before the game
- 6 pounds per player will be collected on the day
- post-match analysis in the Landseer pub on Landseer Road (5 mins walk away)

You know the drill by now: sign up below if you want to be considered for selection. Applications from specialists (i.e. goalkeepers) will be viewed favourably.

Very strange game, we were very good going forward and composed even when playing out of defence. When they had the ball we always looked vulnerable at the back when they ran at us, they had a couple of forwards who were quite skilful at creating space for shots and on occasion we made it too easy for them to get into dangerous positions.

Neither team had any subs, which meant both midfields were fairly stretched as the game went on, the sun also played a part as it was hard to deal with long balls.

I should probably have saved around three of their shots, hadn't had enough sleep and my reactions weren't quick enough to get down to the low shots, so apologies to everyone for that. Kind of made up for it by clattering a bunch of their players in the 1v1s I guess.

We scored some lovely goals, some great passing moves and cool finishes, whole forward line was excellent. Jack had a fantastic game at the back, broke up so many of their moves. Dan did some good shouting when they pulled it back to 5-5 from 5-2 in the second half, just about kept our heads in the game.

We pressed really well in their half ( really good shift from Owen in particular) and scored some nice team goals. at the back we struggled with their pace at points and were too passive in the challenge to start with - though thought we defended well to hold the lead late on.

lack of subs obviously a factor and made the shape a bit weird - though the midfield did well, we had 2 quite attack-minded players in the more defensive positions, which caused some issues when they broke quickly.

fags and hangover aren't great fuel for the midfield engine. their centre-forward was an utter tank and we got let off the hook a bit thanks to some pretty shit goalkeeping/defending and some top finishing.